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Helmut Recknagel
Squaw Valley February 1960, VIII Olympic Winter Games. Ski jumping 90m: eventual winner Helmut RECKNAGEL of Germany in action. Credit: IOC Olympic Museum Collections/RÜBELT Lothar Born: 20 March 1937 Birthplace: Steinbach-Hallenberg (Germany) Nationality: Germany Sport: Skiing ATTENDANCE AT THE OLYMPIC GAMES Squaw Valley 1960 Innsbruck 1964 AWARDS Olympic medals: Gold: 1 Other results: World Championships Gold : 1 (62) Bronze : 2 (58, 62) First Non-Scandinavian Ski Jump Champion Helmut Recknagel recorded the longest jump of each of the two rounds in the 1960 ski jumping contest and won the gold medal by 4.6 points. An East German, he was the first non-Scandinavian to earn an Olympic ski jumping title. In 1964, a second jumping event was added and Recknagel entered both. He place sixth on the normal hill and seventh on the large hill.
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